TELUS Pays Well: The Only Reason To Stay - Customer Service Representative TELUS Employee Review

3.0
22 Aug 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is better than all over call centres, which makes it hard to leave, but at the end of the day do you want somewhere that pays less and makes you happy or pays more and you hate it. TELUS makes you have good pay cheques but not much more. Benefits are great if your full time/part time, but if you're temporary your out of luck and a lot of people are temporary staff member for a long time. You get 40% discount on phone or internet service at home if you work at TELUS and use TELUS services.

Cons

The wrong employees are always recognized, whereas hard work goes unnoticed, favortism in the office place is very accurate of TELUS. The shift work, the night shifts, the random days off cause a lot of tiresome days/nights, as you switch between early to late. Managers are all chummy chummy with other managers, so you can never go to anyone else and expect what you said to be confidential. There are only 25 people in my department so needing specific days/hours is very difficult. In the summer, I was stuck working nites 5 weeks in a row which seems unreasonable and unnececessary.

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5.0
25 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility of hours and freedom of location.

Cons

Pay is not high, and not enough tasks available at times.

2.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home and create your own schedule. Paid training. There is an option for therapy through the company.

Cons

They are hiring, but there aren't enough tasks to make the minimum of 10 hours a week. There are no raises and no promotions. They take a long time to respond to emails, if they respond at all. The only benefit is a 401 (k). $14 is the pay rate, and one can only work 20 hours a week, if there are enough tasks. The past couple of exams for training set one up to fail them. I have been doing this job long enough to know this. They constantly threaten your job, which really affects morale and confidence. There used to be bonuses, but they haven't done them in a long time. There were times we were given permission to work up to 35 hours for the week, but again, it has been a long time. Last one, they didn't have enough tasks to allow for workers to get to 25+. They also offered stock options, but they ended that as well. They made a major mistake on my end and threatened me unless I complied. Eventually got an email that they were wrong, but they didn't apologize. I saw they were hiring freelancers with a maximum of 25 hours a week. I wrote to management and was told the rest of us were only staying at 20. I am currently seeking other employment. There are other companies that do the same work with higher pay and actual benefits. This was once a good job, but once Telus took over, it has been downhill. I would not recommend this company anymore. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a sinking ship.

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